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Rugby Sevens Cup Elbows
Handover as Hot Tourist Draw

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Diane Brady Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated March 19, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

While most Hong Kong-bound travelers may be saving their champagne for the handover, some insist that the territory's hottest event will take place this weekend with the Rugby World Cup Sevens. The annual exercise in on-field mayhem (and off-field debauchery) boasts more significance this year because the Hong Kong tournament also has been designated as the Rugby World Cup Sevens, the premier tournament for seven-a-side rugby.

That's unlikely to sober up the fans and players now streaming into town. The 24 competing teams already...